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July 2019

The Kerkhoven Legion Baseball team won three games last week to win the sub-district baseball tournament title. Kerkhoven, which improved to 5-4 overall with the three wins, beat Granite Falls, Thursday (2-1), Montevideo, Saturday (7-3), and Granite Falls again, Sunday (7-6).

Kerkhoven, which placed fourth at the State Class A Baseball Tournament this past spring with many of the same players, won two of the games without the services of two of their top players (Alex and Isaac Call).

Regan Carlson had two hits during the win over the 2-1 win over Granite Falls, while Christian Diederich, Carlson, and Wylee Lottman each had three hits against Montevideo, and Levi Sweere, Weston Gjerde, and Hunter Wilts had two hits each during the championship game win, Sunday.

Picking up wins on the mound for K-Town were Alex Call, Carlson, and Noah Thorson.

Ten members of the Benson High School Trap Shooting team competed at the National Shoot, July 10-14 at Mason, MI. They attended the event with coaches Andy Abner and Neal Klassen, along with most of the parents.

Competing at the National meet for the BHS Trap team were AJ Klassen, Reece Larson, Devon Liles, Brady Ascheman, and Jake Ness, who formed one team, and Gabe Abner, Hunter Mondor, Zander Hoffman, Jared Kurkosky, and Macoy Kurkosky, who were part of a second BHS team.

In the team competition, the BHS Squad #1 scored 443-of-500 clays and placed 110th of 206 total teams, while squad #2 scored 428-of-500 clays and placed 153rd.

Only the top 80 squads advanced to the finals so the BHS teams barely missed the cut.

Four members of the KMS baseball team earned All-Area honors for the 2019 season.

Weston Gjerde and Alex Call were named to the All-Area first team, while Dylan Rudningen and Regan Carlson were selected to the All-Area second team.

Joining Gjerde and Call on the first team were Owen Boerema of Litchfield, Drey Dirksen of Willmar, Grady Fuchs and Luke Johnson of Paynesville, Wyatt Halvorson of Lac qui Parle, and Luke Ryan and Jordan Sagedahl, both of BOLD.

Only 18 players from the West Central Tribune coverage area earned placement on one of the two All-Area teams, and the Saints had four of them...

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Construction Update: Progress on Bid Pkg. #1 is underway with asbestos being removed and demolition starting next week; July 15 is site excavation, prep work for the new auditorium and north of the high school and security fencing installation later this week; Northside specs/drawings were released. Pre-bid meeting June 18, bid opening June 27.

STATE OF MINNESOTA
COUNTY OF SWIFT
DISTRICT COURT
PROBATE DIVISION
EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
Court File No. 76-PR-19-320
Estate of
WALLACE B. BANGSUND
Decedent.
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NOTICE AND ORDER FOR HEARING ON
PETITION FOR DESCENT OF PROPERTY
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A Petition for Determination of Descent has been filed with the Court. The Petition represents that the Decedent died more than three years ago, leaving property in Minnesota and requests the probate of Decedent's last will, if any, and the descent of such property be determined and assigned by this Court to the persons entitled to the poperty.

There will be a meeting of the Swift County Board of Adjustment on Monday, August 5, 2019 at 8:30 a.m. in the Law Enforcement Center (LEC) in the Lower Level of the Swift County Courthouse, 301 14th St. N., Benson, MN to consider the following:

Robert Joseph Fennell, 88, of Benson, Minnesota, died Friday, July 19, 2019, at the St. Cloud Hospital. Visitation was from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., followed by the Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 a.m., Friday, July 26, 2019, at St. Malachy Catholic Church in Clontarf. Interment was in the church cemetery.

Robert Joseph Fennell was born October 24, 1930 in Benson, Minnesota, the son of Joseph Francis Fennell and Eleanor Mary (Bouta) Fennell. He was called from this life Friday, July 19, 2019 at St. Cloud Hospital. He attained the age of 88 years, eight months, and 26 days.

Eunice Noding, 91, of Willmar, died Monday morning, June 10, 2019 at Bethesda Grand Nursing Home in Willmar.

Memorial services will be 11 a.m. Saturday, July 27, at Bethel Lutheran Church in Willmar with visitation one hour prior to the service at the church. Interment will be at the Benson City Cemetery.

Eunice Dorothy (Polk) Noding was born February 6, 1928, in Lamberton, Minnesota, the daughter of Edward and Hilda (Engen) Polk. She grew up in the Storden/Lamberton area and graduated from Storden High School in 1946.

At its meeting last week, Swift County’s commissioners were a couple question every leader in rural America is being asked: What are the most critical strategic challenges the county faces?

Dawn Hegland, executive director of the Upper Minnesota Valley Regional Development Commission, posed the question to our five county commissioners. The RDC serves local units of government in Swift, Chippewa, Yellow Medicine, Lac qui Parle, and Big Stone counties by assisting them with planning and economic development.

“What the RDC board is asking is, what are a couple of strategic issues in the region we can help with?” Hegland requested of commissioners. She told them the RDC was willing to allocate staff time to the priorities they identified.